"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design"

-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“A few times in my life Iâ€™ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. Itâ€™s as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.”
“People all say that I've had a bad break, but today - today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”

Source : "Character: Lou Gehrig". "The Pride of the Yankees", July 15, 1942.
“I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.”
“If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”
“Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.”

Source : David Malouf (2011). “The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World”, p.87, Black Inc.
“Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.”
“I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.”
“Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.”

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